Category — Wingnuts

A Diersen Headline at Illiinoize reports that “The Combine” has directed local TV news organizations to highlight potentially vulnerable Republican Congressional seats in light of Saturday’s victory by Bill Foster over Jim Oberweis. Now, RubberStampRoskam has obtained, through sources that wish to remain anonymous, a shocking photograph of The Combine meeting secretly with reporters and media executives. We are told that The Combine was purchased by and is acting under the direction of George Soros.

Noted nut bar, perpetual Republican candidate, and regular Roskam campaign contributor Jim Oberweis has been engaging in some hilarious last minute shenanigans in his bid to win Denny Hastert’s old seat in the 14th. (Why anyone would want to sit in Hastert’s old seat I’ll never know.) Read about it here:

Jim Oberweis Insanity…You’ve got to see this - IL-14 (UPDATE)

Sure hope we put this idiot to pasture for good today. Anybody know if Roskam endorsed him?

This post on Illinois Review drew my attention today: “Do nothing,” global warming skeptics say.

The blurb is is related to the the U.N. Climate Change Conference going on in Bali, Indonesia this week and the Chicago-based Heartland Institute’s attempts to nose its way into the news surrounding the conference by claiming that the U.N. is trying to silence it’s panel of “dissenting scientists”.

The Heartland Institute is a self-described “nonprofit research and education organization”. Its mission, according to the website is to “discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in health care, market-based approaches to environmental protection, privatization of public services, and deregulation in areas where property rights and markets do a better job than government bureaucracies”. Based on that alone, we know that it is not a scientific organization. This is a marketing/lobbying organization.

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Ellen of the 10th has a nice post about “The Speech“, Mitt Romney’s “Faith in America“ address at the George Bush Presidential Library on Decmber 6th. I agree with Ellen. The speech was disturbing.

Romney identifies religious liberty as the topic of his address and then sets out to pledge fealty to the establishmentarians of the Christian right while trying to channel John Kennedy in the hopes of appearing statesman-like.

Romney insists that “Freedom requires religion just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can discover his most profound beliefs and commune with God. Freedom and religion endure together, or perish alone”, and further “Americans acknowledge that liberty is a gift of God, not an indulgence of government”. Religious liberty for Romney is not liberty at all. And our Constitution, which explicitly prohibits an established religion is of no consequence to him.

If it weren’t bad enough that Republicans like Romney are trying to establish their religion, the religion they want to establish is just so creepy. Basically it amounts to just toeing the line regarding abortion and homosexuality and institutionalizing Christian observances to remind ourselves what a great godly nation we are. Then they’re justified and can go out and invade sovereign nations in the name of God and Freedom and maim and kill their people. And they can ignore all the inconvenient parts of Jesus’ message and engage in their main project of making the rich richer at expense of the poor.

A news flash today from the web site of Peter Roskam: ROSKAM INTRODUCES HISTORIC LEGISLATION HONORING THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF CONGRESSMAN HENRY J. HYDE.

Please. This is liable to put me off my feed.

Henry Hyde was born. He became a politician of some talent. He occasionally used that talent to benefit humanity. And then he died.

Along the way, Henry used all of his powers to cover-up the real corruption of a President of his own party, Saint Ronald Ray-gun, aiding and abetting his waging of a campaign of terrorism against the people of Nicaragua, financed by illegal arms sales to Iran (Iran!!!) and CIA-assisted drug trafficking in the U.S. And did I mention, they sold arms to friggin’ Iran!

He later used all his powers to persecute another President of the opposing party based upon some phony charges invented out of thin air by Richard Mellon-Scaithe and his cronies, all the while moralizing about that President’s extramarital adventures, despite Hyde’s own history as a serial adulterer.

He became an extremist in the cause of restricting the right of women to control their own reproductive systems, even to the point, as Bridget in the 6th has helpfully pointed out, of legislating against freedom of spech and of the press.

And he found time to become embroiled in a major Savings and Loan Scandal.

During his twilight years he worked unceasingly in Congress to enable the many wonderful blessings that the George W. Bush administration has brought to us. Boy, have we been blessed.

And now we’re being asked to beatify Henry. Well I’m sorry, but I find very little to celebrate in Henry’s legacy.

I learned from reading Illinois Review that Peter Roskam’s one-time boss Tom Delay had been in Lombard recently to “celebrate Jesus” and to help kick off a kooky website that Jesus has apparently recently established in Wheaton.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at that meeting and I wonder if Tom explained how Jesus, working through the prophet Jack Abramoff, led him to make it possible for garment workers in the U.S. territory of the Northern Marianas Islands to legally work in horrendous sweatshop conditions, free from interference by the Congress or U.S. labor regulators. Delay reportedly described the situation on the Islands as a “a perfect petri dish of capitalism”. Apparently Delay and Jesus hoped to eventually phase in these types of working conditions here on the mainland.

Now don’t get me wrong. As much as I disagree with Peter Roskam, he seems to be a person of honesty and integrity and worthy of respect. I don’t wish to smear him by association with someone he worked for a long time ago. What I am hoping for, what I want in my Congressman, is for him to stand up to the kind of intolerance being promoted by folks like the Culture Campaign and to temper his insistence on market-only solutions and to work to protect those who are vulnerable in society, like those workers in the Northern Marianas. The only aim of a post like this is to goad him in that direction. When I see that kind of movement maybe I’ll change the name of this site to “Re-elect RubberStampRoskam”